Harnessing the Multilateral Patent and Plant Variety Protection Regimes to Advance Food Security:Implications of the EU-ECOWAS Economic Partnership Agreement (more...)
A Breakthrough in Negotiations on Intellectual Property, Protection of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge in WIPO? By Dr. Viviana Muñoz Tellez
This Policy Brief provides a brief summary of the current negotiations in the World Intellectual Property Organization (more...)
Lessons From India’s Implementation of Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public HealthBy Nanditta Batra
The major bone of contention between the developed and developing countries in the TRIPS negotiations was patents for pharmaceuticals. The US-led developed countries (more...)
The South Centre invites applications from the members of the Antibiotic Resistance Coalition (ARC) and other civil society organizations or research institutions from developing countries for limited financial funding (maximum 2000 USD per campaign) to design and launch campaigns or support (more...)
Webinar: The Future of the TRIPS Agreement (Part 2)11 October 2022Virtual eventTime: 10:00 - 11:30 CET
Sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic requires availability of medical technologies in all countries. To date, inequity in (more...)
Evaluating the Impact of Pillars One and TwoBy Suranjali Tandon and Chetan Rao
The proposed OECD Pillar One and Two reforms mark a significant shift in the way large multinational enterprises are taxed on their global incomes. However, while considering the reform at (more...)
UN Model Tax Convention: Selective Territoriality – The Specter of Privileged Player in a Rigged GameBy Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed
This paper lays out the chessboard on which taxes on international incomes from immovables are contested, bargained, and harvested as per (more...)
Thematic Work Program of the South Centre, 2023 to 2025
This document presents the thematic issues that the South Centre will be addressing in the period 2023-2025. It describes the main areas the Centre will cover in providing research inputs, advice, capacity building and (more...)
South Centre Semester Report, January – June 2022
While global inequality continues to grow, developing and least developed countries face multiple crises in the context of a weak recovery from COVID-19, massive outflows of capital, decline of Official Development Assistance, (more...)
We regret to inform that the South Centre event during the WTO Public Forum, Session 79, “The Future of the TRIPS Agreement: Part 2” on 29 September is cancelled. Session 120 “Mainstreaming Development in the WTO” on 30 September will be held as scheduled. (more...)
PROGRESS REPORT ON AMOUNT A OF PILLAR ONEThe BEPS Monitoring Group, 24 August 2022
The BEPS Monitoring Group submitted comments to the Public Consultation on the Progress Report on Amount A of Pillar One released by the OECD in July on behalf of the Inclusive (more...)
Impact of a Minimum Tax Rate under the Pillar Two Solution on Small Island Developing StatesBy Kuldeep Sharma
The Research Paper commences with an overview of Pillar One and Pillar Two followed by detailed discussions on salient provisions of Pillar Two.
Pillar (more...)